cold war 1

• What was the name of the agreement of 1941 of Britain, the USA and USSR to unite against Hitler?

  Grand Alliance
• What was the political ideology followed by the USSR?


  Communist
• What was the political ideology followed by the West (USA and Britain)?

  Capitalist/Democratic
• What was the name of the meeting in 1943 where the ‘big 3’ discussed what to do when Hitler was defeated and agreed on a Soviet ‘sphere of influence’ in Eastern Europe?

  Tehran Conference
• What was the name of the 1945 meeting where the USSR agreed to join in the war against Japan and the setting up of the United Nations was agreed?

  Yalta Conference
• What was the name of the 1945 meeting where it was agreed that Nazism be banned and that Germany should be divided? 

  Potsdam Conference
• When did the USA use the atom bomb on Hiroshima?

  6th August 1945
• When did the Soviet’s complete their first successful test of an atomic bomb?

  29th August 1949
• What were the names of the 2 messages sent by ambassadors of the USA/USSR in 1946 showing they were both worried about the other building up their weapons?

  Long Telegram; Novikov Telegram
• Name a soviet satellite state in Eastern Europe.


  Lithuania; Latvia; Estonia; Czechoslovakia; Yugoslavia; Albania; Poland; Hungary; East Germany; Bulgaria
• What was the name of the US policy of 1947 that stated they should use military and economic means to stop the spread of Communism?

  Truman Doctrine
• What was the name of the US policy to prevent the spread of Communism by offering $13 billion of aid to European countries?

  The marshall plan
• Name an impact of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan on international relations from 1947.

  USA had set itself as opposition to the

  Russia; the Grand Alliance had finally

  Dissolved; it made Stalin more suspicious of the

  West; it tied Western Europe into supporting

  the USA; it made rivalries between East and West

  more intense
• What was the name of the organisation through which the USSR controlled all the Communist parties in Europe?

  Cominform
• What was the name of the organisation that encouraged trade and industry in European countries to stop them joining the West’s sphere of influence?

  Comecon
• What was the name of the area where the US, Britain and France merged their zones in Germany in 1948?

  Trizonia
• What did Stalin order in 1948 to try to force Germany to become a Communist state and force the Western allies out?

  Berlin blockade
• How did the USA and Britain respond to this?

  Berlin airlift
• What were the names of the 2 different states that Germany was divided into in 1949? 

  Federal Republic of Germany (FDR) –

  West; German Democratic Republic (GDR) –

  East
• What were the names of the two military alliances signed in Western Europe in 1949 and in Eastern Europe in 1955? 

  Nato & Warsaw Pact
• What names is given to the build-up of ever more destructive weapons by the USA and USSR in the late 40s – early 50s?

  Arms race
• What action did Khrushchev take in 1956 that led some Communists to believe that there would be a relaxation of control in Eastern Europe?

  Secret speech against Stalin
• Which country attempted unsuccessfully to break away from Soviet influence in 1956?

  Hungary